The Recorder of York, Judge Sean Morris, was sentencing a York man with Asperger’s Syndrome
MORE and more people with mental health issues are being locked up in in prison because there aren’t the resources for them in the community, York’s top judge has said.
The Recorder of York, Judge Sean Morris, was sentencing a York man with Asperger’s Syndrome who had dressed himself in black, put on a balaclava and gone to Scarborough with an gas powered BB gun, two combat knives and two hammers.
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